From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable: American Christian and Jewish Scholars Encounter the Holocaust

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• Title Page III
• TO GEORGE D. SCHWAB V
• Contents vii
• Series Foreword ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction: Memories, Encounters, and Challenges 1
• NOTE 4
• Part One - MEMORIES 5
• 1 - Voices for Change: Chapters in the Post- Holocaust Dialogue 16
• 2: A Door that Opened and Never Closed: Teaching the Shoah 19
• 3 In the Name of the Father 33
• 4 - Being Catholic, Learning Jewish: Personal Reflections on the Shoah 52
• 5: Post-Holocaust Jewish Reflections on German Theology 57
• Part Two ENCOUNTERS 71
• 6 How My Mind Has Changed 73
• 7: My Experience with the Holocaust 83

• Title Page III
• TO GEORGE D. SCHWAB V
• Contents vii
• Series Foreword ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction: Memories, Encounters, and Challenges 1
• NOTE 4
• Part One - MEMORIES 5
• 1 - Voices for Change: Chapters in the Post- Holocaust Dialogue 16
• 2: A Door that Opened and Never Closed: Teaching the Shoah 19
• 3 In the Name of the Father 33
• 4 - Being Catholic, Learning Jewish: Personal Reflections on the Shoah 52
• 5: Post-Holocaust Jewish Reflections on German Theology 57
• Part Two ENCOUNTERS 71
• 6 How My Mind Has Changed 73
• 7: My Experience with the Holocaust 83
• 8: Penetrating Barriers: A Holocaust Retrospective 99
• 9: Once and Not Future Partisan: A Plea for History 111
• 10: From Ignorance to Insight 125
• Part Three CHALLENGES 137
• 11: The Shoah-Road to a Revised/Revived Christianity 139
• 12: From Anger to Inquiry 149
• 13: A Twentieth-Century Journey 157
• 14: Transforming the Void 173
• 15: It Started with Tears 191
• Selected Bibliography 203
• Index 209
• About the Editors and Contributors 217